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Mau Mau Crucible of War

Statehood, National Identity, and Politics of Postcolonial Kenya
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Mau Mau Crucible of War is a study of the social and cultural history of the mentalite of struggle in Kenya, which reached a high water mark during the Mau Mau war of the 1950s, but which continues to resonate in Kenya today in the ongoing demand for a decent standard of living and social justice for all. This work catalyzes intellectual debate in various disciplines regarding not just the evolution of the Kenyan state, but also, the state in Africa. It not only engages historians of colonial and postcolonial economic and political history, but also sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and those who study personality and social branches of psychology, postcolonialism and postmodernity, social movements, armed conflict specialists, and conflict resolution analysts.
Chapter 1: Inside the Mau Mau Mind: "Returning the Imperial" Gaze in Centennial Perspective Chapter 2: White Man's Country: The Colonial Foundations and Legal Architecture of the Kenyan State Chapter 3: Colonial Rupture: African Experiential Anxiety of Transformation in Time, Space and Place, 1900-1951 Chapter 4: '52 Minds on Kenya's Destiny: The view from "the above" Chapter 5: Drudgery in Pyrrhic Victory: Whither the Fruits of Independence? Chapter 6: "Matigari ma Njirungi": Bifurcation, Atomization and Survival of the Mentalite of Struggle Chapter 7: "Bado Mapambano," Solidarity Forever: Latter Day Travails of Critical Publics Chapter 8: The Long Kenyan Century: A People's Elusive Quest for "the Good Life"
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